Category: First Amendment

Up in Smoke

 

Aspenfire

The Westcliffe Independence Day Parade/Second Amendment March had to be canceled. Received via email:

Good afternoon David, We greatly appreciate you letting your readers know about our 2A March that was planned for Saturday. However, the 4th of July Parade has been canceled because of the Aspen Acres Fire that is burning in Custer and Pueblo Counties and has grown to more than 50,000 acres. Several towns (Beulah, Rye, Wetmore) have been evacuated along with dozens of neighborhoods, with many homes and other structures already lost. I would ask for prayers for all of the first responders and everyone being affected by this and all the fires in the region, as well as our great country during these times when so many things are just upside down. Thank you and God bless you.

That’s the spirit that would have marched. That’s the spirit that confirms who is on the right side of things.

George Gramlich was known by the company he kept, and he was a pretty good judge of character.

[Via KB]

Aspen Acres Fire Updates

SCOTUS Refusal to Address School Ban on Gun Imagery Puts Freedom 250 Art Contestants at Risk

School 2A Rights SCOTS AI CHAT GPT

Teachers have been known to report students over perceived off-campus gun concerns before, even when no cause for them existed. [More]

Submitting a historically accurate entry could run afoul of “zero tolerance” intolerance.

For it’s ‘Hi! Hi! Hee!’ for Gender Identity!

[The] DC Court of Appeals in a 2 to1 decision said, indeed, that … President Trump’s policies of excluding transgenders from the military and not allowing them to serve, that this was unconstitutional and illegal. [Watch]

I’m wondering how soon someone’s gonna file a complaint about how getting rid of “non-binary” on the 4473 is an unconstitutional attack on freedom of expression requiring prospective buyers to choose between rights…

Hey, any chair in a bar fight…

[Via Jess]

Feelings… Nothing More than Feelings

REMOVED AGAIN: Our Executive Director @iancesca1776 was informed he needed to leave the committee room because his firearm pin made others feel unsafe. [More]

Those in power can use that excuse to trample a lot of rights– like you see being done here.

To paraphrase Rhett Butler, they ought to be made to feel unsafe, and often, and by someone who knows how.

A Temporary Reprieve

New York has agreed to drop a requirement that applicants for concealed carry gun permits list their former and current social media accounts so officials can confirm their “character.” [More]

For now.

Let communist Democrats keep gaining power there, and “gun permits” and “social media” won’t even be permitted memories, let alone issues for proletariat consensus.

We’re the Only Ones Memephobic Enough

Michigan Sheriff Michael J. Bouchard … arrested a man who posted a meme about him and the sheriff said the man was “trying to threaten and intimidate” with the meme. He then stated the 1st Amendment makes people “feel empowered, emboldened, and safe,” so he had to teach the public a lesson. [Watch]

Streisand Effect, anyone…?

LaLaLa…He can’t HEAR you…

Related UPDATE

Fenix Ammunition tells the Sheriff what protects the First Amendment.

You’d think with that NRA endorsement he’d lnow.

[Via WiscoDave]

Stopping the Signal

That’s gotta be a First Amendment “right to petition” violation. Not that their minds aren’t already made up and the hearings aren’t anything but theatrics to make it look like they’re responsibly deliberating.

I wonder if Harmeet would agree…

[Via Jess]

Stopping the Signal

California Bill Would Force 3D Printers to Block Gun Files With State-Approved Detection Technology [More]

And I can see the bastards pulling a DeStefano on an out-of-state supplier who won’t comply. (Looks like they gave up on trying to raise funds because no one wanted to help plant the seed, water the crop, harvest the grain, mill the flour, and bake the bread.)

I’m wondering if the “unfunded mandate” used in Printz to invalidate Brady Law requirements might be applicable in fighting this, or is that just an escape clause for public entities against the feds?

The Bully Pulpit

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That seems… illegal.

Yes, I know she had another account tied in with her office, but as the linked article notes:

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that public officials who post about topics relating to their work on their personal social media accounts are acting on behalf of the government, and therefore can be held liable for violating the First Amendment when they block their critics, only when they have the power to speak on behalf of the state and are actually exercising that power.

She always was good at “allegedly” gaming the system. Why that can’t be nailed down by a seemingly omnipotent fedgov is a mystery to me.

Might be worth some pushback…

Big Brother is Watching You

California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves [More]

That report on you…

I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen legislation that abrogates so many of the amendments in the Bill of Rights in one edict.

But…but…but it’s for the greater good…

[Via TactiCool Memes]